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Neuwied (district)

District in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Coat of arms

CountryGermanyStateRhineland-PalatinateCapitalNeuwiedGovernment

• District admin.Achim Hallerbach (CDU)Area

• Total626.80 km² (242.01 sq mi)Population

(31 December 2022)^[1]

• Total187,440 • Density300/km² (770/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Vehicle registrationNRWebsitekreis-neuwied.de

Neuwied (German pronunciation: [nɔʏˈviːt] ^ⓘ) is a district (Kreis) in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rhein-Sieg, Altenkirchen, Westerwaldkreis, Mayen-Koblenz, Ahrweiler.

History

The district was created in 1816 when the area became part of the Prussian Rhine province. In 1822 the district Linz was merged into the district.

The district has a partnership with the Polish county Namysłów in Opole Voivodeship; first contacts date to 1998 and the partnership became official in 2000.

Geography

The districts landscape covers the Westerwald mountains, east of the Rhine river valley. The Rhine forms the western boundary of the district.

Coat of arms

The crosses in the top represent the two clerical states which owned part of the district - the black cross of Cologne in the left, the red cross of Trier in the right. The peacock in the bottom is taken from the coat of arms of the Counts of Wied.

Towns and municipalities

Verband-free town: Neuwied

Verbandsgemeinden
1. Asbach Asbach¹ Buchholz Neustadt (Wied) Windhagen 2. Bad Hönningen Bad Hönningen^{1, 2} Hammerstein Leutesdorf Rheinbrohl 3. Dierdorf Dierdorf^{1, 2} Großmaischeid Isenburg Kleinmaischeid Marienhausen Stebach	4. Linz am Rhein Dattenberg Kasbach-Ohlenberg Leubsdorf Linz am Rhein^{1, 2} Ockenfels Sankt Katharinen Vettelschoß 5. Puderbach Dernbach Döttesfeld Dürrholz Hanroth Harschbach Linkenbach Niederhofen Niederwambach Oberdreis Puderbach¹ Ratzert Raubach Rodenbach bei Puderbach Steimel Urbach Woldert	6. Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach Anhausen Bonefeld Breitscheid Datzeroth Ehlscheid Hardert Hausen (Wied) Hümmerich Kurtscheid Meinborn Melsbach Niederbreitbach Oberhonnefeld-Gierend Oberraden Rengsdorf¹ Roßbach Rüscheid Straßenhaus Thalhausen Waldbreitbach	7. Unkel Bruchhausen Erpel Rheinbreitbach Unkel^{1, 2}
¹seat of the Verbandsgemeinde; ²town

Verbandsgemeinden

1. Asbach

Asbach¹
Buchholz
Neustadt (Wied)
Windhagen

2. Bad Hönningen

3. Dierdorf

4. Linz am Rhein

5. Puderbach

6. Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach

7. Unkel

¹seat of the Verbandsgemeinde; ²town

References

^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.

External links

Official website (German)

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Landkreis Neuwied.

Towns and municipalities in Neuwied (district)

v t e Urban and rural districts in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany
Urban districts	Frankenthal Kaiserslautern Koblenz Landau Ludwigshafen Mainz Neustadt Pirmasens Speyer Trier Worms Zweibrücken
Rural districts	Ahrweiler Altenkirchen Alzey-Worms Bad Dürkheim Bad Kreuznach Bernkastel-Wittlich Birkenfeld Bitburg-Prüm Cochem-Zell Donnersbergkreis Germersheim Kaiserslautern Kusel Mainz-Bingen Mayen-Koblenz Neuwied Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis Rhein-Lahn-Kreis Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis Südliche Weinstraße Südwestpfalz Trier-Saarburg Vulkaneifel Westerwaldkreis
Districts of German states (Full list) Baden-Württemberg Bavaria Brandenburg Bremen Hesse Lower Saxony Mecklenburg-Vorpommern North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia